Max von Fabeck

Max von Fabeck (6 May 1854-16 December 1916) was a General der Infanterie of the Imperial German Army during World War I.

Biography
Max von Fabeck was born on 6 May 1854 in Berlin, Prussia, and he was already a lieutenant in the footguards by the time that he was seventeen. In 1889, he became a staff officer in an army corps in Breslau, and he received his first command as a colonel in 1898. In 1913, he took command of a corps in Stuttgart, and Fabeck led his corps during World War I. His corps took part in the Race to the Sea and the First Battle of Ypres, and he briefly led a few armies during the war with the Russian Empire in Eastern Europe. He became seriously ill in 1916, and he took his own life rather than suffer.